This Research Proves Your Brain Just Wasn’t Built for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet. It’s a long article. Bring popcorn. But it’s worth a read. Greg Ciotti doesn’t argue that we shouldn’t engage in any of these things–just that we should be aware of how they affect our brains, so we can make choices […]
Real artists ship. It’s not important if nobody sees it.
I can’t let Dr. King’s day go by without posting something in his honor. His very name inspires visions of courage: not the swaggering bravado of the nineteenth century, nor even the forward-at-all-costs determination of the industrial-age soldiers we came to admire in the twentieth. Martin Luther King’s courage was something different. It’s one thing, […]
You get today. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. What will you do with today? Will you seek victory–or comfort?
In October of 2012, a gunman sent by the Taliban–that fun-loving bunch of crazy kids that sheltered Osama Bin Laden so he could share his brand of joy with the world– stepped onto a school bus in Pakistan and shot a fifteen-year-old girl in the head. It wasn’t an accident, and it wasn’t random. It […]
Veronica Roth is the author of Divergent, the first book of a teen trilogy about a dystopian future society. In the story, society is divided into factions, each based on values its founders felt could counteract the evils of the world. Those with aptitudes encompassing more than one faction–the Divergent of the title–are seen as […]
A few days ago, we talked about looking back. Of course, life can’t be all about what came before; if we’re not looking forward, it’s hard to get anywhere, and harder to know where we’re going. We wouldn’t take a road trip without an idea where we’re going. Why, then, do so many of us […]
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a big fan of the late Nelson Mandela. It wasn’t always so. The day he was released from prison in 1990, I watched his speech on CNN. I was eighteen years old, and fancied myself a patriot, and five minutes in I decided he was a […]
We’re fascinated with what came before us. We go to museums to see how people lived long ago. We flock to movie theaters to see historical films like Lincoln and Gladiator. We’re fascinated with old cars, old clothes, old hairstyles. When we tell stories, we almost always tell them in the past tense, as though […]
The world is not conspiring to make your life suck. Most of the time, the world could care less about you. You are in control of your life. Will you accept one that sucks, or will you show some courage and at least try to make it victorious?